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ὕπειμι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὕπειμι

Structure: ὑπ (Prefix) + έ̓ς (Stem) + τον (Ending)

Etym.: ei)mi/ sum

Sense

  1. to be under, under, were, to be under the yoke, to be yoked in
  2. to be or lie underneath
  3. to be laid down, being granted
  4. to remain concealed, lurk
  5. to be left remaining, remain, be at command
  6. to be subjected or subject

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Τιγγῖται δὲ μυθολογοῦσιν Ἀνταίου τελευτήσαντοσ τὴν γυναῖκα Τίγγην Ἡρακλεῖ συνελθεῖν, Σόφακα δ’ ἐξ αὐτῶν γενόμενον βασιλεῦσαι τῆσ χώρασ καὶ πόλιν ἐπώνυμον τῆσ μητρὸσ ἀποδεῖξαι, Σόφακοσ δὲ παῖδα γενέσθαι Διόδωρον, ᾧ πολλὰ τῶν Λιβυκῶν ἐθνῶν ὑπή· (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 9 4:1)
  • Γινώσκεται μὲν οὖν τὰ τοιαῦτα, ἢν ἕλκοσ ὑπῇ, τῇ τε ὀδύνῃ καὶ τοῖσι σφυγμοῖσιν‧ καὶ τὸ οἴδημα τὸ ἐν τοῖσιν ἄκροισι, σκληρότερον γίνεται τῶν τοιουτέων, καὶ εἰ τὸν δάκτυλον ἐπαγάγοισ, τὸ ἔρευθοσ ἐξαιρέεται, ἀτὰρ καὶ αὖθισ ὑποτρέχει ταχέωσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 27.2)
  • ὅταν ὑπῇ δόγματα ἀλλόκοτα περὶ τῶν ἀπροαιρέτων [π]ὡσ ὄντων ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν, πᾶσα ἀνάγκη θεραπεύει ν τοὺσ τυράννουσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 16:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be under

  2. to be or lie underneath

  3. to be left remaining

  4. to be subjected or subject

Derived

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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